dagny wrote:When the Pens were out here my friend noticed that if Malkin gets knocked around enough, it really throws him off. He made the comment that other teams are going to pick up on and just hit him as much as possible. Errey commented something to the effect of that being the Isles game plan, to hit Malkin as much as possible. Could Tim have been right?

Addendum: I do think Malkin will get over it.

Absolutely, it's obvious that he is about 25 pounds light for the NHL, all of those little bumps that are knocking him around will be ignored in acouple of years. Malkin is going to be a monster out there, unstoppable, they better get their licks in now.

dagny wrote:When the Pens were out here my friend noticed that if Malkin gets knocked around enough, it really throws him off. He made the comment that other teams are going to pick up on and just hit him as much as possible. Errey commented something to the effect of that being the Isles game plan, to hit Malkin as much as possible. Could Tim have been right?

Addendum: I do think Malkin will get over it.

Well Errey was talking about the other night, because Sid was not playing.